Problem-based Learning Within Health Professional Education. What Is the Role of the Lecturer? A Review of the Literature.

Haith-Cooper, Melanie

Nurse Education Today, v20 n4 p267-72 May 2000

The literature reveals disagreement over the degree of intervention facilitators should make in problem-based learning (PBL). PBL requires a shift to a constructivist teaching philosophy. Instructors who serve as facilitators need training in PBL methods and group dynamics in order to be effective. (SK)